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  • Oni v. Oni

    Publication Date: 2013-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis Collard Kessler, Schwarz & Solomiany PC, William Ordway, and David Webster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wayne Dempsey, Dunwoody, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0368

    The trial court erred in granting the mother's motion to set aside the final decree of adoption entered after the surrender of her parental rights to her twins, as the action was time-barred pursuan

  • Department of Transp. v. Revco Disc. Drug Ctrs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kennita Haley, and Thomas Dempsey Weiner, Yancey, Dempsey & Diggs LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Jackson Welch and William White Smith, Welch, Webb & White, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0040

    The plaintiff's intervention in the direct condemnation action and the dismissal of the plaintiff's inverse condemnation action with prejudice constituted a judgment on the merits for purposes of re

  • Gomez v. Innocent

    Publication Date: 2013-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward McCrimmon and Lisa McCrimmon McCrimmon & McCrimmon, Doraville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Levinson, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0550

    The trial court improperly dismissed the plaintiff's case for failure to state a claim without first giving the plaintiff notice, hearing and an opportunity to present evidence in his lawsuit agains

  • Ward v. Ward

    Publication Date: 2013-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin Marger, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry Lee and Mary Priest Clark & Clark, Ellijay, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0088

    The trial court properly determined that the transfer of the stock certificates issued to the appellant did not comply with O.C.G.A. § 14-2-621 subsection b because the family-owned corporation boar

  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence Lewis, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Justin Unger District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0370

    Defense counsel was not deficient in his representation of the burglary defendant, despite his then age of 91 and his hearing impai

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  • Montgomery v. Morris

    Publication Date: 2013-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
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    Case Number: A13A0441

    The trial court lost jurisdiction to consider a contempt motion when it dismissed the underlying case without prej

  • Hodge v. URFA-Sexton LP

    Publication Date: 2013-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Mills, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James Myers and Brynda Insley Insley & Race LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0056

    The trial court properly denied the plain motion to disqualify the defendants' counsel for a conflict of interest based on its employment of a paralegal who was formerly employed with the plai

  • Spinks v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Marshall, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Marietta, and Anna Cross District Attorney's Office, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0239

    The trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence in the defendant's trial for burglary and criminal trespass, since the similarities of the defendant's involvement in other burglaries

  • Biggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura Hastay Darden Hastay LLC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, Margaret Heap, District Attorneys, David Perry, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0170

    The evidence showed that the defendant was properly advised that he was facing a mandatory life sentence without parole, he insisted that he wanted a jury trial and he failed to show that he probabl

  • Georgia Dep't of Transp. v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2013-06-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Robert Dyer Dyer & Rusbridge PC, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Evans Vaughan & Evans LLC, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0419

    The evidence supported the jury's finding that the plaintiff acquired a prescriptive easement over a railroad crossing, and thus a compensable property interest, because the railroad was on notice o